Social Pressure and Human Behavior

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This paper looks at human behavior and how people who are socially adjusted are able to alter their behavioral tendencies within differing contexts in order to meet certain social goals or expectations, particularly in the work place.

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"Human behavior is dynamic. The socially adjusted individual will, by necessity and by desire, alter behavioral tendencies within differing contexts in order to meet certain social goals or expectations. There are a number of contexts, both ordinary and extraordinary, in which individuals must make a conscious or unconscious decision to alter behavior in the face of external pressure.
"Perhaps the most immediately apparent context within which social considerations will tend to govern behavioral psychology is the workplace. Indeed, individuals within the context of their occupation will attempt to balance a personal identity with the demands to behave according to certain expectations. Every organization has its own culture and psychology which in turn impose upon the individual a set of behavioral objects that may or may not correspond with personal behavioral proclivity. Due to the need to project a positive impression, the desire to advance one's self, the added efficiency produced by reflection of a broader culture and a host of other factors, for many individuals there is no apparent way to reconcile a gap between personal preference and occupational demand. Thus, one's chosen face while oriented toward the organizational culture will often be one affected to alter behavioral tendencies that might otherwise raise unwanted attention."

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